Rojas CA, Cinner J, Lau J, Ruano-Chamorro C, Contreras-Drey FJ, Gelcich S. An experimental look at trust, bargaining, and public goods in fishing communities.
Sci Rep 2021;
11:20798. [PMID:
34675244 PMCID:
PMC8531345 DOI:
10.1038/s41598-021-00145-5]
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Abstract
Pro-social behavior is crucial to the sustainable governance of common-pool resources such as fisheries. Here, we investigate how key socioeconomic characteristics influence fishers' pro-social and bargaining behavior in three types of experimental economic games (public goods, trust, and trade) conducted in fishing associations in Chile. Our games revealed high levels of cooperation in the public goods game, a high degree of trust, and that sellers rather than buyers had more bargaining power, yet these results were strongly influenced by participants' socioeconomic characteristics. Specifically, gender, having a secondary income source, age, and being the main income provider for the household all had a relationship to multiple game outcomes. Our results highlight that engagement in pro-social behaviors such as trust and cooperation can be influenced by people's socioeconomic context.
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